[Kzyxtalk] Fwd: Re: About scheduling Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio on KZYX.

[Marco McClean]

     The previous program director never wrote back to me, despite my 
having written at least once a week. The current program director just 
wrote back after three weeks. And I replied, and here is that:


On 6/9/2016 9:22 AM, Alice Woelfle-Erskine wrote:
 > Hi Marco,
 > Your show sounds very cool. I'll make time to listen to it sometime
 > soon. At this point, we are taking submissions for new music shows.
 > It doesn't sound like your show quite fits that description, but
 > because it sounds interesting I'll give it a listen and submit it for
 > consideration. You said it plays on Friday night on KMEC? What time
 > slot do you think it suited for? Nighttime?


      I did it for nearly 15 years on KMFB, then KMFB was bought up and 
destroyed and I applied to KZYX. That was four and a half years ago. I 
waited six months, became frustrated, called Bob Young at KNYO and was 
on the air there within a week. After a couple of years of working there 
and improving the station, I called KMEC and Ed and Sid found a way to 
automatically grab the live stream of my show in progress at midnight 
and then I'm on there too. I do the show every Friday night from 
wherever I am, using a portable studio that I made. When I'm in Fort 
Bragg, people can walk in off the street and be immediately on the air; 
when I'm not, it's mostly just me, reading, and playing music for breaks.

      The show would fit in any time slot. Night is good. On KNYO I 
start at 9pm, so I hold off on reading swear words for an hour, until 
Safe Harbor hours. This Friday will be my 949th weekly six-to-eight-hour 
Memo of the Air: Good Night Radio show, and there's never been even a 
hint of FCC trouble or legal trouble of any kind because of it. You have 
nothing like my show on KZYX. You already have dozens of shows where 
people are just playing CDs or playing a playlist from their iPod. I am 
inviting you to make improving the station a priority.


 > At KZYX we are starting a new process of scheduling new shows and
 > programmers. We are assembling a programming team which will review
 > and vote on which shows should go where (when it comes to nationally
 > produced shows) and who should be on the air (in terms of local
 > volunteer programmers.) So it isn't a matter of one person deciding
 > and holing all the power anymore. I'm hoping this will work well.


      Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath about that. That's exactly what I 
was told in February of 2012, and then I wrote to the programming 
committee and filled out forms and met with Mary Aigner and found out 
that the programming committee had no power at all and, as Mary said, 
"Nobody's gonna read that."

      Is Stuart Campbell the chairman of the new programming committee? 
Because he will never allow my show on KZYX. And who else is there? And 
do I get a vote on who's on that committee?


 > Again, I'm sorry for the delayed response. I look forward to
 > listening to your show and will get back to you.


      And, Alice, that's another thing I've heard before, for years and 
years. If you're gonna do it, do it right now. You don't have to listen 
to a whole six-to-eight-hour show. Just download the latest show and 
skip around in it. I stream to the various transmitters in relatively 
high quality stereo but the recording is only in speech-quality 
monaural, so music sounds a lot better on the air than on the recording, 
just to let you know.


-- 
Marco McClean
memo at mcn.org
http://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com